Thursday’s match at Wimbledon left us with a controversial moment after Taylor Fritz’s victory over Arthur Rinderknech by 6-3, 6-4, 3-6 and 6-4 and at the moment of the greeting at the net at the end of the match.
An episode in which Fritz was very cold with Rinderknech and, very seriously, said something to the Frenchman, to the latter’s disbelief, who asked Fritz ‘What have I done to you?’, to which the American replied: “You know what you have done.”
Fritz himself revealed in the post-match press conference what he said to Rinderknech in the net at that tense moment. “I said to him: ‘Have a good trip home’.”
And the tension between Fritz and Rinderknech goes back a long way, and more specifically since the match between the two in the second round of Roland Garros 2023, when Fritz beat Rinderknech in a hostile environment and in front of a French public that booed him throughout the match and whom Fritz silenced after achieving his victory.
An episode that Rinderknech referred to in the preview of the match between the two at Wimbledon and which was the trigger for what happened on the net after the match. “My friend Taylor! The atmosphere will be calmer and I think he will cry a little less this time. He complained the other time saying that it was too loud for him. I have nothing against him, but if he expects the French public to kiss him during the points, he is wrong.”
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2024-07-05 07:22:41
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